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A service beyond all recompense
Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.—CORNEILLE, Surena
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I prefer death to lassitude. I never tire of serving others.—DA VINCI
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.—ROBERT FROST, The Self-Seeker
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The highest of distinctions is service to others.—KING GEORGE VI
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He serves me most, who serves his country best.—HOMER, Iliad
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Thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.—MILTON, On His Blindness
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We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
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Nor are we to use living creatures like old shoes or dishes and throw them away when they are worn out or broken with service.—PLUTARCH, Lives
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First come, first served.—Proverb
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He who serves the public hath but a scurvy master.—Proverb
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He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.—Proverb
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He that looks for a requital, serves himself, not me.—Proverb
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Service is no heritage.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
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It did me yeoman's service.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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I have done the state some service, and they know 't;
No more of that.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
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'Tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second.
Stood heir to the first.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
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He profits most who serves best.—A. F. SHELDON, Motto For Rotary International
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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.—TOLSTOY, What Is to Be Done
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Enough if something from our hands have power
To live, and act, and serve the future hour.—WORDSWORTH, Sonnet to the River Duddon